2021 Turin municipal election

2021 Turin municipal election
3 and 4 October 2021 (first round)
17 and 18 October 2021 (second round)
Turnout331,566 · 48.08% ( 9.10 pp)
290,632 · 42.14% ( 12.27 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Stefano Lo Russo Paolo Damilano
Party Democratic Party Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Last election 41.83%
45.44% 		18.76% (separately)
N/A
Seats before 11 4
Seats won 24 13
Seat change 13 9
Popular vote 140,200
168,997 		124,347
116,322
Percentage 43.86%
59.23% 		38.90%
40.77%
Swing 2.03 pp
13.79 pp 		20.14 pp
N/A
Mayor before election

Chiara Appendino
M5S

Elected mayor

Stefano Lo Russo
PD

Municipal elections were held in Turin, Piedmont, on 3 and 4 October 2021 to elect the mayor of Turin and the 38 members of the City Council of Turin. Originally scheduled for June 2021, the election was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round, where the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo (a member of the Catholic wing of the Democratic Party) narrowly finished first against most opinion polling, a runoff election was held on 17 and 18 October 2021.[1] The second round was won in a landslide by Lo Russo, who outperformed the polls and was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021.[2][3] Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement, who was the incumbent mayor of Turin, did not run for re-election.[4]

Background

Electoral system

The voting system for the office of mayor of Turin is used for all mayoral elections in Italy in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes, or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.[5] The election of the City Council of Turin is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list; the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using the D'Hondt method for seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[5]

Centre-left coalition primary election

Candidate Party Votes % Notes
Stefano Lo Russo Democratic Party 4.229 37,5% [6]
Francesco Tresso Independent 3.932 34,9% [7]
Enzo Lavolta Democratic Party 2.864 25,4% [8]
Igor Boni More Europe 257 2,3% [9]
Total 11.325 100

Political parties and candidates

List of the political parties and candidates that took part in the election[10]
Political force or alliance Constituent lists Candidate
Centre-right coalition League Paolo Damilano
Brothers of Italy
Forza Italia (UDC, PLI, PU, DC)
Beautiful Turin
Progress Turin
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance
The People of the Family
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party Stefano Lo Russo
Lo Russo for Mayor (DemoS, CD, IV, A, +E, RI, Volt, Monviso Civic List, Alliance for Turin)
Ecologist Left (SI, Pos)
Moderates
Turin Tomorrow
Art. 1 – PSI
Sganga coalition Five Star Movement Valentina Sganga
Green Europe
D'Orsi coalition Common Left (PRC, SA, DemA) Angelo D'Orsi
Italian Communist Party
Power to the People
Di Cristina coalition Communist Party Giusi Greta Di Cristina
Turin Future City
Futura for the Common Goods Ugo Mattei
Workers' Communist Party Massimo Chiesi
3V Movement Paolo Alonge
Turin Environmental Movement (4 October Movement) Roberto Salerno
Prohibition to Dismiss Lorenzo Varaldo
Turin Capital of Europe – Stop ISEE Emilio Mazza
Verra coalition Italexit Ivano Verra
We Citizens
Balducci coalition Gay Party Davide Betti Balducci
Animalist Party

Declined candidates

Withdrew

Centre-left coalition

  • Mauro Salizzoni, medic and regional councilor of Piedmont (since 2019).[11]

Declined

Centre-left coalition

Five Star Movement

Opinion polls

First round

Date Polling firm Sample size Sganga Lo Russo Damilano Others Undecided Lead
4 October 2021 Election result — 9.0 43.9 38.9 8.2 — 5.0
12–15 Sep 2021 Noto 1,000 9.0 40.0 42.0 9.0 29.0 2.0
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 9.0 42.0 42.0 7.0 21.0 Tie
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 9.5 39.0 42.0 9.5 27.0 3.0
7–10 Sep 2021 Quorum 805 8.6 42.8 43.7 4.9 43.2 0.9
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 8.3 41.4 44.2 6.1 39.6 2.8
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 11.1 38.9 41.6 8.4 23.0 2.7
3–5 Aug 2021 Demopolis 1,804 13.0 34.0 41.0 12.0 37.0 7.0
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 8.0 43.0 44.0 5.0 22.0 1.0
25 Jun 2021 Euromedia Research 1,000 11.9 39.6 43.7 4.8 N/a 4.1
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 12.6 38.2 40.1 9.1 30.0 1.9

Second round

Damilano vs. Lo Russo
Date Polling firm Sample size Damilano Lo Russo Abstain Lead
4 October 2021 Election result — 40.7 59.2 — 18.5
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 48.0 52.0 N/a 4.0
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 48.0 52.0 N/a 4.0
7–10 Sep 2021 Quorum 805 47.4 52.6 44.9 5.2
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 46.9 53.1 47.8 6.2
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 48.0 52.0 N/a 4.0
16 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 48.0 52.0 N/a 4.0
25 Jun 2021 Euromedia Research 1,000 50.2 49.8 37.3 0.4
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 47.0 53.0 N/a 6.0

Political parties

Date Polling firm Sample size Centre-left Centre-right M5S–EV Others Lead
PD A IV +E Volt Mod SI Others FdI LSP BT FI C! Others M5S EV
4 October 2021 Election result — 28.6 5.0 3.4 3.6 3.5 10.5 9.8 11.9 5.3 1.6 8.0 0.9 8.0 18.1
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 25.9 N/a N/a N/a N/a 3.8 3.2 8.3 10.7 19.4 2.1 8.3 N/a 1.5 7.6 1.6 7.6 6.5
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 31.2 4.6 1.5 N/a 1.5 9.5 20.0 2.5 9.2 N/a 1.8 8.9 1.0 8.3 11.2
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 32.3 N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a 8.2 14.7 19.4 N/a 4.2 N/a 4.8 7.4 1.4 7.6 12.9
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 26.5 N/a N/a N/a N/a 3.4 3.4 6.3 15.8 13.4 4.5 3.7 1.5 1.9 9.2 2.2 8.2 10.7
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 30.5 1.5 1.5 N/a N/a 3.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 21.5 2.5 8.0 N/a N/a 8.5 N/a 4.5 9.0
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 23.2 2.7 2.5 1.5 0.8 3.1 2.2 1.8 15.4 14.7 5.0 3.9 0.6 N/a 12.7 1.9 9.0 7.8
5 June 2016 Election result — 29.8 DNP DNP DNP DNP 5.9 DNP 6.8 1.5 5.8 DNP 4.7 DNP 4.2 30.0 DNP 11.9 0.2

Results

Candidate First round Runoff Leader's
seats 		Political party or party list Votes % Seats
Votes % Votes %
Stefano Lo Russo 140,200 43.86 168,997 59.23 – Democratic Party 85,890 28.56 17
Lo Russo List 15,013 4.99 2
Ecologist Left 10,807 3.59 2
Moderates 10,177 3.38 2
Turin Tomorrow 7,960 2.65 1
Article One – PSI 2,407 0.80 –
Total 132,254 43.97 24
Paolo Damilano 124,347 38.90 116,322 40.77 Y Beautiful Turin 35,658 11.86 4
Brothers of Italy 31,490 10.47 3
League 29,593 9.84 3
Forza Italia – UDC – PLI 15,951 5.30 2
Turin Progress 2,236 0.74 –
The People of the Family 1,320 0.44 –
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance 1,305 0.43 –
Total 117,553 39.08 12
Valentina Sganga 28,785 9.01 – – Y Five Star Movement 24,058 8.00 2
Green Europe 2,711 0.90 –
Total 26,769 8.90 2
Angelo d'Orsi 8,095 2.53 – – – Left in Common (PRC – DemA – SA) 3,512 1.17 –
Italian Communist Party 1,838 0.61 –
Power to the People 1,656 0.55 –
Total 7,006 2.33 –
Ugo Mattei 7,406 2.32 – – – Futura 6,975 2.32 –
Francesco Ivano Verra 2,677 0.84 – – – Italexit 2,353 0.78 –
We Citizens 240 0.08 –
Total 2,593 0.86 –
Davide Betti 2,241 0.70 – – – Gay Party 1,336 0.44 –
Italian Animalist Party 775 0.26 –
Total 2,111 0.70 –
Greta Giusi Di Cristina 2,123 0.66 – – – Communist Party 1,552 0.52 –
Turin Future City 454 0.15 –
Total 2,006 0.67 –
Paolo Alonge 1,666 0.52 – – – 3V Movement 1,609 0.53 –
Roberto Salerno 910 0.28 – – – Turin Environmental Movement 792 0.26 –
Lorenzo Varaldo 545 0.17 – – – Prohibition of Dismissing 493 0.16 –
Massimo Chiesi 384 0.12 – – – Workers' Communist Party 360 0.12 –
Emilio Mazza 264 0.08 – – – Turin Capital of Europe 262 0,09 –
Total candidates 319,643 100 285,319 100 2 Total parties 300,783 100 38
Total valid votes 319,643 96.40 285,319 98.17
Blank or invalid ballots 11,923 3.60 5,313 1.83
Turnout 331,566 48.08 290,632 42.14
Eligible voters 689,684 100.00 689,684 100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round – second round)
Notes
  • According to the Italian electoral law of 1993 for the municipalities of Italy, if a defeated candidate for mayor obtains over 3% of votes, the mayoral candidate is automatically elected city councillor (in this case Lo Russo, Damilano, and Sganga were all elected). The candidate elected mayor votes on the city council but is not a member of it.

See also

References

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